Argentina surpassed the 81 million doses of coronavirus vaccines received this week.
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Argentina super this week the 81 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus received since the implementation of the strategic plan to immunize the population, while the inoculation of children and adolescents without risk factors advances throughout the country.
A new shipment of vaccines from Moscow with 500 thousand doses of the second component of Sputnik V arrived on Friday to continue completing the vaccination schedules.
The half million doses arrived at the Ezeiza International Airport at 20.20 on the flight AR1063 of Aerolneas Argentinas, which had departed that same morning from the Russian capital.
The shipment adds to an important flow of shipments from different supplier laboratories that were received during the week, since between Wednesday and Thursday 1,625,130 doses of Pfizer arrived, while 960,400 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by Spain arrived on Tuesday.
In this way, from the beginning of Strategic Vaccination Plan Against Covid-19, the country received 81,639,985 doses of vaccine. Of this total, 14,683,210 correspond to Sputnik V (10,125,655 for component 1, and 4,557,555 for component 2), and 4,759,625 for Sputnik V produced in Argentina by Laboratorio Richmond (1,179,625 for the first component, and 3,580,000 for the second).
To signature AstraZeneca 24,265,400 doses correspond (580,000 from Covishield; 1,944,000 received by the Covax mechanism, 18,989,000 from AstraZeneca and Oxford whose active ingredient was produced in Argentina; 2,202,800 donated by Spain, and 549,600 by Canada). Meanwhile, 30,000,000 correspond to the laboratory Sinopharm, 3.500.000 a Modern donated by the United States, 600,000 to Cansino and 3,831,750 to Pfizer.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, He said days ago that the advancement of vaccination against the coronavirus in children and adolescents is “essential to be able to continue thinking about openings.”
“We are with a vaccination campaign that is advancing very fast and vaccination from 3 years of age is essential to be able to sustain the achievements and to be able to continue thinking about openings,” Vizzotti said last Friday in a statement for CNN Radio.
The minister assured that “we have a very high confidence of the population in vaccines” and specified that 90 percent of the population over 18 years of age are already vaccinated with a dose.
For this reason, the next step for the Health portfolio is “the perspective of adolescent and pediatric vaccination with available doses” in the coming months.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, said days ago that the advance of the vaccination against the coronavirus in children and adolescents is “essential to be able to continue thinking about openings.”
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“We have a reduction in cases and deaths, with about 800 hospitalizations, which is the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Vizzotti.
Although the minister was optimistic about the prognoses, she pointed out that “we cannot say this, it has already happened until the population in the world agrees to vaccination.”
That is why he indicated that, until that moment, “We are going to have the possibility of a new strain emerging and also with the Delta that is not yet predominant in Argentina, but is increasing.”
On the other hand, the minister referred to the apparent slowdown in the vaccination process and explained that this situation “happens in all countries that reach high vaccination.”
“We are with a vaccination campaign that is advancing very fast and vaccination from 3 years of age is essential to be able to sustain the achievements and to be able to continue thinking about openings””
Carla Vizzotti
According to the data provided by the minister, 90 percent of those over 18 years of age have a dose applied, and 72 percent the complete vaccination schedule.
To Vizzotti, todava “we have more demand than supply“, so there is still not a significant number of people who do not want to be vaccinated.
With respect to the remaining 10 percent, Vizzotti attributed it to “difficulties in accessing technology” and another part to “people who have doubts.”
“What the provinces have decided is to go house to house in order to clear that 10 percent,” he said.
In reference to the possibility of a third dose, the minister said: “The third dose is planned and we have stipulated to have those doses during the first half of 2022.”
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